"Pull Me Down (T. Williams Remix)"

RCA

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If we're being honest: "Pull Me Down", the woozy Clams Casino-produced single from pop singer (and Rihannacollaborator) Mikky Ekko, is an almost-there cut that sounds decent while it's on but lacks the necessary staying power when you take off your headphones. It makes sense, then, that a few producers have been able to fill in Ekko's blanks and turn out results that far exceed the original's plodding nature: first, there was bedroom producer Ryan Hemsworth's bright, intricate take, and now we have this 2-step-indebted redo from London producer T. Williams, who's already proved via his take on Disclosure's "Latch" that he's good at this sort of thing.

Hemsworth's remix essentially created a new backing track for Ekko's longing vocal take, and T. Williams' version is not too different in that nature, proving that as much as we as a listening culture sometimes complain about the endless glut of remixes, it's still entirely possible to take someone else's work and create something fresh and superior with it.